Hotel Chevalier is best known for 1) being better than The Darjeeling Limited, the feature film it ties with, and 2) the one time Natalie Portman got naked in front of the camera.
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Hotel Chevalier (2007)
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
A layer under the surface, stoner comedies and hard-boiled detective stories actually have a lot in common
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Garden State (2004)
Garden State’s reputation has fallen out of favor in the 18 years since its release, and understandably so.
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Casablanca (1942)
“Is it really that good?” I wondered as I hit play for the first time in a decade.
Ever visited a city and felt so entranced by it that you start imagining yourself living there? Wandering the streets and living out some long-lost glory years?
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The Truman Show (1998)
I recently read Ed Sikov’s Film Studies: An Introduction, and one early point he makes is that everything we see in cinema, even the most vérité and naturalistic scenario, is, to some extent, constructed. Everything seen and heard is placed in front of us for a specific reason.
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The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
To watch the first fifteen minutes of The Rescuers Down Under is to wonder if you’ve stumbled upon some lost Disney masterpiece: The animators, using their new “CAPS” technology that would define the look and feel of 1990s Disney animation, bring us soaring through the Australian outback. The nuanced color and lighting bring a simultaneous crispness and softness to the visuals that is the polar opposite of 1977’s The Rescuers, to which this is a sequel.
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12 Angry Men (1957)
Few movies have endured with such a sterling — even ascendant — reputation as 12 Angry Men.
A largely-forgotten adaptation of a largely-forgotten YA tetralogy, City of Ember has nearly enough breathtaking production values to make up for its avalanche of cliches and crummy pacing.
Up is among the most uneven films from Pixar’s imperial phase, but still pretty close to a masterpiece.